In 1996, Joey Skaggs designed a playhouse created to look like a Japanese Tea House for the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog.
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In 1983, Joey Skaggs began making and selling Fish Condos, aquatic sculptures depicting bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms for upwardly mobile guppies.
Read more →On January 15, 1983, Hawaii windsurfer, J.J. Skaggs (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs) set out to become the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean on a sailboard.
Read more →To promote nuclear disarmament, Joey Skaggs, with friends and SVA students, created the Nuclear Hot Potato performance during an anti-nuclear demonstration.
Read more →Jojo, the king of the New York gypsies (aka Joey Skaggs) and founder of Gypsies Against Stereotypical Propaganda (G.A.S.P.), called for a gypsy work stoppage until the gypsy moth was renamed.
Read more →In 1982, Skaggs and friends took giant photos of starving children to the Macy’s Day Parade and set them up along the parade route.
Read more →New York’s Sewer Monster, thought to be just another urban legend like Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman, actually left his home in the sewer to scare off some protestors in front of the Governor’s office in Midtown Manhattan.
Read more →In 1978, Skaggs and his School of Visual Arts students devised a satirical street performance to illustrate what could happen if everyone in society disregarded each other’s comfort zones.
Read more →“We have much to learn from cockroaches,” said entomologist Dr. Josef Gregor, (aka Joey Skaggs). “They’ve been around for 350 million years.” Gregor, leader of a group called Metamorphosis, said he had bred a superstrain of roaches, extracted their hormones and made a vitamin pill which cured arthritis, acne, anemia and menstrual cramps and made one invulnerable to nuclear radiation.
Read more →Sir Joseph Bucks (aka Joey Skaggs), formerly a shoeshine man on Wall Street had listened to stock brokers who stopped in for a shine. Investing smartly, it didn’t take long for him to amass a fortune. Returning to his roots on Wall Street, he offered luxury shines for $5.00 a pop. Lots of shoes plus lots of news media got shined.
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